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She did as requested. “Are Colin and Tanner going to be our new daddies?”
I choked on my coffee. This was why I never brought men into the house. But they were different. And the girls had liked them before I ever slept with Colin and Tanner.
Fuck. This was messy. “Daddy is your daddy.” Nonsensical-but-obvious mom statement for the win.
“But Edward has two daddies and two mommies.” Harmony ate more of her food.
Alana was strangely quiet for all of this. Where was theyou’re so stupid,followed byI’m not stupid, you’re stupid?
“Edward’s parents divorced then married other people,” I said.
Harmony nodded. “And you and Daddy are divorced.”
Alana huffed.
There it was.
She sank in her seat and crossed her arms.
Or not.
“When I grow up, I’m going to marry Edward and Joanie.” Harmony moved on to the next tangent.
Thankfully, this was a conversation I could handle. Well, maybe not, but it was preferable to the previous one. “You can’t marry people unless everyone agrees.”
“I already asked them,” Harmony said. “They said okay.”
Because of course my forward-looking child was already planning her wedding. “You’ll have to make sure again when we get closer to you being older.”
“When will that be?” Harmony asked.
“Ten years.” That felt like a safe answer.
Harmony nodded and returned to her cereal.
Thank fuck she’d moved on from the Tanner and Colin question. I’d love it if I could do the same.
The thought gnawed at me. How long until Icouldmove on? Because as much as I knew I should, I didn’t want to.
Alana finished her breakfast first, walked her bowl to the sink, and rinsed it out before returning to the table. “Mom, it’s okay if they are.”
I could ask what she was talking about, but the pit in my gut had a pretty good idea. Harmony hadn’t asked about Colin and Tanner on her own—she’d had prompting from her older sister.
“They’re really nice,” Alana said. “And I bet they’d never cancel a vacation early or make you change your plans last minute, and they’re old like you.”
Should I be grateful I was justoldand notold and grosslike Uncle Dustin? “Colin and Tanner aren’t old.”
Alana shrugged.
I expected a lot of things out of motherhood, but nothing anywhere had prepared me for this conversation. Part of me had thought I could avoid even introducing one man into their life until they were older, but two? “I’m not getting remarried. Not to them or anything.”
There was that nagging pain in my chest again. That murmur ofbut I don’t want to lose them.
“Okay.” Alana took Harmony’s bowl when it was empty, and cleaned those dishes up too, before returning to her chair at the table.
She never dropped a subject unless she thought she was being clever and had a plan. What was she up to?
Harmony pulled the cereal box closer. As she followed the maze on the back with her finger, she told a story about the pony who lived in the forest at the end. This was a continuation of the same story she’d told last week, while she connected the dots on another picture.
